The 5 elements in the Chinese Wu Xing:

• Water Style colored blue.
  • A few of the prereleased images do show a blue ring. So maybe... maybe.
  • Confirmed
• Earth Style as a Mid-Season Upgrade. It is colored in dirty yellow.
  • Confirmed, though it is a standard form, not a Mid-Season Upgrade (yet).
  • Also, it's called Land Style.
• Plant Style colored green.
  • Or it will be Air Style to fit in with the more traditional basic elements. Can still be Green though.
    • Hurricane Style (green) has been confirmed.
• Steel Style as a Super Mode. It is also white in color.
  • Wizard's Super Mode has confirmed to be white in color, but it is called Infinity Style.

Wizard looks like he's been an expert on the subject of magic for quite some time, though that could be his costume design.

• Could be trending towards Jossed - Haruto obtained the power of magic after subjugating the Drago Phantom and seemingly being trained by the White Wizard.
  • Right and wrong on certain accounts - he's had the belt for six months as of the series beginning (as opposed to the last two Riders whose first episodes revolved around them becoming Riders), but he's still relatively inexperienced.

Strictly Formula. Bonus points if he's a noob who picks up the belt and is instructed by someone on how to use it.

• Jossed. Haruto has had the belt for a while, and is already quite adept at the job. And he's a well-mannered, nice guy on top of that.

And he becomes The Mandarin from Iron Man.

• Nope, he's still got the one ring to a hand thing going.

They didn't give him one for his standard form because staffs are really powerful and require lots of energy to use. So, they're saving it for when Wizard has gotten much stronger later in the series.

• Jossed. He uses a Sword/Axe hybrid.

We've gotten two series in a row where the main Rider is a boy scout (three if count Double), so it would be refreshing to have an Anti-Hero lead for the first time since Decade. Though hopefully, Wizard will be better at this characteristic then he was.

• Jossed. Wizard, aka Haruto, is a nice guy, if not somewhat easily-amused, goofy at times, and Genre Savvy.

Either this, or as a Mid-Season Upgrade, given Wizard's other style are confirmed to be part of the 4 classical elements.

And then his ultimate mode will have that combined with the other four elements.

• Presumably it would be pink (or magenta), added to the four existing styles it would make a standard five-man Super Sentai team.
  • Well, it's not pink, at least.

Naturally, he will have problems getting it to work.

The main character is a light-hearted smartass wizard who wears a trenchcoat, loves donuts, and his default fighting style is slinging fire; on top of that, one of his allies is a female cop who is one of the few to realize there's something supernatural going down, is frustrated that her co-workers are burying their heads in the sand, and wants to do something about it.

• Unlikely, for one I don't think that The Dresden Files is even been translated into Japanese. Second it would be a little too similar to Kamen Rider Double, since both Double and Dresden Files are speculative takes on the noir detective, with Dresden being a wizard and Double being a Kamen Rider.

Just as how its Flame Style involves Ruby.

• Confirmed.

He's bringing it back!

• Jossed. "Now, it's showtime."

Okay, I don't see Foudation X anymore in the latest episodes of Fourze and probably they found something interesting in another part of Japan and decided to go there instead. Now as for this case, Wizard will end up fighting the monsters of the week and later on, them. Also, as for the Fourze movie, he appears to appear there so therefore he must be found there too in the same vein with Double, OOO, and Fourze to each other's show.

• Possible. Kengo and Yuki make an Early-Bird Cameo in the final OOO episode, and Haruto appears in Fourze's.
  • With Kamen Rider Decade's AR World thing being confined to that series (and the AR worlds being so different from the originals), and no dimension-hopping happening at any other time Riders meet, ever, the idea that Rider series take place in separate dimensions until proven otherwise is the WMG theory - and one quite thoroughly Jossed (all those teamups, Tomoko's past Rider footage, etc.) at that.

Much like how Fourze was an unfinished secret character in the first All Kamen Rider: Rider Generation.

• CORRECT SIR!

Rings are used in alchemy. In old times alchemy was considered a type of magic. Alchemy is the practice/art of changing one thing to another. Magic written in grimoires often involved summoning demons by wearing rings at the same time. The Magic using Kamen Rider that fights demons(known as Apparitions) uses rings to transform. To further this the enemy of the series were called on by a solar eclipse(for those that haven't seen one it the general concept is a dark circle with a ring of light around it.)

Preferably a pointy wizard's cap. And it will be called Wizard Merlin Mode.

• Nope. And it's Infinity Style.

This includes the following possibilities:

• His stage shows will be the cover story for his activity as Kamen Rider Wizard.
• A Monster of the Week interrupts his stage show, leading to his mentor providing him with the Transformation Trinket.
• Wizard stumbles upon the device while looking through a chest of family heirlooms, because...
• His father/grandfather/distant ancestor was a magician before him, and he looks up to said figure.
  • Apparently jossed. He was chosen for surviving an attempted human sacrifice.
  • That doesn't jossed what Haruto was doing BEFORE being kidnapped to "participate" in The Sabbath.

He's got Wajima to make rings for him. Why would he need to go on a killing spree to get more rings?

• Especially since Wiseman's the one producing the stones.

Bonus point if this Style become Lightning Bruiser.

• Semi-jossed. Wizard's Mid Season Upgrade does feature the power of lightning. However, it's an ability locked in Hurricane Dragon Style, as the Thunder Ring is paired with it.

Can you think of a better explanation for why he doesn't have a wand?

• The producers decided he didn't need to have a wand and that a sword-gun would be infinitely cooler than a stick. Bam, there's your answer.

List your ideas for what other rings Wizard could obtain.

• Invisibility
• Gravity
  • Confirmed as Land Dragon Style's special ability ring.
• Time
  • Confirmed
• Intangibility
• MagiMuscles
  • Close enough...the Excite Ring works this way.
• Past riders for the movie war
  • Confirmed
• Freezing
  • Confirmed. Blizzard Ring, the Water Dragon special ring, has the ability to freeze.
• Temporal self-petrification that blocks all attacks
• Making donuts
• Giant, which would make Wizard the first Rider to do so since J
  • The Big Ring is this on a partial scale. Would be nice to see this in action, though the Phantom that is needed for this extremely Situational Sword must be one hell of a Phantom.
• Punch Strike
• Chop Strike
• Impersonating someone else
• Seeing through walls (by creating an image that anyone can see), or outright scrying

A person hacked the toy and found the following sounds (Question marks mean the hacker wasn't sure about the sound, left and right indicate which hand the ring is on)

Because it is the only form not shown in recent news. Now, its design will be more grand compared to the other three.

• Jossed. The Drago Timer is.

Flame is Glass Cannon, Water is Jack of All Stats, Hurricane is Fragile Speedster and Land is Mighty Glacier.

• Or, alternatively, there is none; all are the Jack of All Stats having different elemental weaknesses/resistances.
  • No evidence to the Pokemon-style elemental things, at least. It's all in the manual, but the forms do have different specialties roughly equivalent to those mentioned above.

• The latest information shows the main Phantoms being base on The Phoenix and Gorgon. With a Apparitions being a bull and the other made up of flame, probably to represent Helios/Apollo.
  • The two Apparitions are based on the Minotaur and a hellhound, respectively. So it could be a Greek Mythology motif, or just mythological creatures in general.
• Jossed. Caitsíth is not a creature of Greek mythos.

• Considering the box office success of Super Hero Taisen.
  • It looks that way. Super Hero Taisen Z has been confirmed, and Wizard will almost certainly join with the Jyuden Sentai Kyoryuger (and the guys from Space Sheriff Gavan: The Movie as well) just as Fourze crossed with the Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters.

This will allow for Wizard's cameo in the Fourze movie where he doesn't know what a Kamen Rider is but after finding out he decides to call himself Kamen Rider Wizard.

• The series starts with Haruto having already been active as Wizard for an indeterminate amount of time, so the events of the crossover movie may have simply occurred before the show proper.
  • Given the rings Haruto has available in the Fourze movie, people have guessed that it takes place in between some early episodes.

• Confirmed. Once Haruto gains the Dragon Rings, he runs the risk of falling faster into despair, since he's still technically a Gate, if one that has the powers to fight back.

In addition to this, when he de-transforms, a magic circle appears from behind before moving to his front. Finally, when he finally transforms into his Super Mode, a magic circle appears from the front.

• We'll still have to see with the others, but when he de-transforms, the magic circle comes from below, same as Land Style.
• Jossed; there is no restriction to which specific direction the circle appears from based on the Style at all! They simply appear wherever Haruto is pointing at.

Wizard will get a Movie Exclusive Mode this way.

• Well, there is a "Flame Dragon" sound on the Drago Timer. So Infinity calling out the four Dragon Forms and then moving into Infinity All Dragon could well be possible. Whether or not that has anything to do with the "Final" sound found on the Driver.. time will tell.

• Or at least dragon-like. Which would explain the subtle dragon motif that Wizard has.
  • The Wizardragon is Haruto's Phantom, so this is already confirmed.
    • #9 even shows that the Dragon has gotten the turn-into-the-person-you-killed trick down already.

The effects are turning him into the following:

• Flame Style becomes magma
• Land Style becomes mud
• Hurricane Style becomes Ether or Mist
• For the Dragon upgrades, each form can shape shift their liquids into a powerful dragon! Shaped like the Dragon Phantom, of course.

Since Blade you can't have a WMG without this element coming up with at least once. I mean, come on guys.

• Well, monsters have been being violently repelled by henshin effects since Blade. Maybe he'll turn to the side and let a Phantom eat a faceful of Instant Runes.
• Confirmed. The magic circle for Flame Dragon is used this way in episode 10.

Just how both Greeed and Phantom have no sense of taste and Eiji who partly Greeed lose his sense of taste, Haruto who is partly a Phantom also has no sense of taste. This explain why he only ate Plain Sugar Donuts as it doesn't matter whatever flavor that the donuts have if he can't taste it.

• Very unlikely. Firstly, he is not part Phantom. His Phantom is a seperate being which is contained within, if it were to break out, he would be dead and the Phantom would take his form. Also, just because he always has plain sugar donuts doesn't mean he doesn't enjoy them. Indeed, he didn't like Kosuke putting his mayonnaise on them, he appeared quite concerned about this Trademark Favourite Food being ruined for someone who has no sense of taste.

Possibly the exception will be in the final episode.

Sorry if this is another WMG based off Madoka, but seriously, the sole survivor of a car crash is one of the backstories for the veteran Puella Magi, though in her back story, she was on the verge of dying. This could explain why he didn't succumb to Phantomization like the others... maybe.

It's clearly more powerful than other Inner Phantoms we've seen once Haruto's taken control, and when channeled for the Dragon Forms, makes Wizard even stronger than Phoenix. It's also got a more ornate design than other Inner Phantoms have, just like Medusa and Phoenix have more regal looking designs than the Lesser Phantoms.

Hurricane Ring=Vilya, Water Ring=Nenya, Flame Ring=Narya.

• So... Would that mean... Dragon Ring=Sauron?!

If you like, you can post your idea on the words, too.

• Hurricane:
  • Blow
    • Close enough. The final answer can be translated to "blow".
  • Storm
  • "Kaze" as in wind
  • Final answer: it was "Byu"
• Water:
  • Drown
  • Wash
  • Soak
  • "Ko" as in flood
  • Swash
  • "Shi"
  • "Ame" as in rain
  • "Freeze"
  • Final answer: it's a combination of "Jaba", "Bashaa", and "Zabun".
• Land:
  • Quake
  • Dig
  • "Shin" as in quake
  • Rock
  • Final answer: it's a combination of "Donten", and "Dogon".
• Since Flame Dragon actually chants "Bo" as in explosion in Japanese, the other chanting words should be Japanese as well. Probably.
  • But I heard "Burn" instead. Though they sound the same.
• Finally, for Infinity Dragon, it will say the other four elements words in this order: Flame(Bo), Hurricane(Byu), Water and Land just as how Wizard got each of the dragon upgrades in that order.
  • Actually, the Infinity Ring announces "Hi Sui Fu Do! Bou Jaba Byu Dogon~!". Meaning all of the chants are in this.

He's got the Copy ring early on, no surprise there. It starts with Wizard using Copy until he gets 4 of himself, then the Big Bad claiming "we've seen that already", then actual!Wizard going roughly "but have you seen this?" just as the other 3 bring out the remaining 3 Styles rings and turning into Hurricane, Water and Land in very close succession, their belts sounds meshing together into a medley mix of sorts. Some ass gets kicked, involving the four Wizards tossing certain rings to each other for certain moves. Then actual!Wizard yells an order for all four Wizards to switch up to their Dragon Styles. More tossing of rings occurs, except this time the emphasis is on using the finishers on any Co-Dragons. Then the Big Bad still manages to beat them back, forcing actual!Wizard to pull all the copies into himself - enabling a movie-exclusive form rather than the actual Ultimate Form. Dragged-out beatdown ensues.

• Semi-jossed. It seems that the Drago Timer can do just that. But hey, it might still happen in the film! Just not exclusively.

Considering that they allow aspects of Dragon, Haruto's inner Phantom, to manifest in reality, it's possible that overuse of them might allow Dragon to increase its influence on Haruto in an attempt to break out. As a result, Haruto's going to have to learn to use them sparingly lest he accidentally unleash his own Phantom. Plus Dragon did tell him that use of the ring would lead him closer to despair...

• Also? Wiseman clearly wants our heroes to get their hands on the magic stones. Yet another hint that this might be the case...

In Water Dragon Style, by activating his Special Ring and gain a tail.

• This might happen... If the tail doesn't cleave through the water like Moses first.
  • Confirmed, somewhat. Wizard can swim fine in Water Style.

As a result of his continuing use of the Dragon forms, he gives in to despair at or near to the series conclusion, being replaced by Dragon. However Dragon, impressed by Haruto's determination to save others, even at the cost of his own life, will turn against the Phantoms to finish what he started.

But it will be ambiguous as to if he really did become one or if he bravely resisted. In short: By the end, we won't be sure if it's Haruto or Dragon that's Wizard.

With it being something like Heart, which has the power of using any one of the four elements. It also comes with an Infinity Dragon Ring.

The Dragon Styles are kinda' like that so they'll just stick with these 8 forms until episode 30ish when the FINAL form comes around.

• Episode 32: Infinity Style. However, he had a solid mid-upgrade in the form of Drago Timer and All Dragon Form.

The Wiseman is just a powerful magic user who knows that his Phantom will kill him, so he sets up a ritual to have the phantom take on someone else.

Just so we can see the process. Like in Fourze they failed to prevent Cancer from evolving.

• Perhaps this will be how we'll be introduced to Beast; a Gate will fall to despair, but Haruto still can't bring himself to destroy the new Phantom because he got to know the Gate and they became friends. Beast will come in and cut the Phantom down in under a minute with little, if any, real effort.
  • Jossed for Beast being the Gate.
• Close enough in #27. While he was blocked by Medusa from entering Mayu's underworld, she surpassed her phantom all by herself.

• Related to the WMG about it having drawbacks. The dragon will start to consume Haruto, but give him more power
  • Nope, it's created when Haruto needs more power and has to subjugate Dragon even more to bring out further potential.

And no, I'm not talking about the toy. In-universe, The Wizard Wizard built and programmed it to create spells based on the ring it scans. In fact, Kamen Rider Wizard is not much of a wizard at all because he cannot cast spells himself, only through the use of rings and the Wizardriver.

• Either that or it's Magitek.

...(possibly via portal), robbing Haruto of his magic (and thus the ability to become Wizard). Haruto will then have to find a non-Phantom source of magic (assuming he doesn't just get it from courage, of course)

Basing this off the fact that the secondary rider is the naive newcomer while the main rider is the hardened veteran who has a mentor watching his every move. A reversal of the usual shtick for the Neo-Heisei riders. So it's natural that Haruto might be used to further White Wizard's plans.

refers to another event altogether.

• Well, Death does refer to change in tarot, not actual death.

The Dragon Phantom being Wizard Water Dragon, a phantom named "Please" (see below WMG for more info) being the Hurricane Dragon, and another phantom called "Saiko" being the Land Dragon.

• ...no.

The costume will resemble a Do Ga Ba Ki where all the parts are mixed into one suit.

• Jossed. It's a Pallet Swap for All Dragon Style, called Special Rush Style.

Haruto will go missing/presumed dead for a while and theaudience and/or the characters will not know anything about where he is. At one point we hear the donut sellers, who don't know that Haruto is missing have the following conversation: "Oh, hello there! Do you want your usual?" (Beat) "Here you go, Plain sugar donut." And He's Back

Alternately in a smaller version: Haruto has been acting slightly odd the last few episodes and this reveals he has an Evil Doppelganger or something.

It’s been irking me as to why the Dragon Phantom is so powerful, with the only thing holding Wizard back being how much of Dragon’s power he can access. Maybe Wiseman recognised Haruto’s potential as a gate, and set about a chain of events that would Haruto to become a Wizard during the ritual, most notably causing the deaths of Haruto’s parents. Wiseman caused their car to crash and made sure they lived long enough to Haruto a last hope.

• Furthermore, it’s clear Wiseman needs Wizard for ''something’’, but it remains unclear what this is. This theory would explain why Haruto is so special out of all the other Gates that were sacrificed.

For whatever reason (maybe Dragon escapes his body or is incapacitated, or any number of things), Haruto is unable to use Dragon's power to transform and cast magic. He will then have to tap into his own latent magical ability, which has been slowly growing in the background and has become great enough to create his final form.

• Jossed. Haruto gained Infinity Style because his Heroic Willpower allowed Dragon to be revived, saying that it would once again become his hope.

Haruto has complete dominion over his Dragon Phantom.

Can do Sword Beam in Axe Mode.

If the above unreleased spells indicates so.

Because Infinity Style alone is greater than the Dragon Styles.

• If you look closely, it seems Infinity Style has the same stylized dragon face the Dragon Styles have under the new armor piece, so this is highly likely.
  • Considering that Kamen Rider Decade made a Rising Ultimate form for Kuuga, let's just be cautious of the future.

Will be sung by BOTH Kamen Rider Girls and Rider Chips.

Instead, he'll go the Ascended Demon route and become a creature based off of Hope. Perhaps the manner in which he's revived after Legion killed him will result in this.

Due to some simlarities with Kuuga, one could argue there is another powerup left. It will be activated in the final episode (or two) Just like Ultimate Kuuga. It will be called...wait for it...Final Style.

Hence White Wizard's cryptic message after he sees Haruto transform.

But he's not finished yet. Gaining the Dragon Styles was an important part of the process, though, hence why Wiseman had no problem allowing the good guys to get the necessary magic stones.

When he was born, it was by Haruto skirting the Despair Event Horizon, what brought him back to life was Haruto's determination not to lose hope and be others hope. So where he was born from despair, he was reborn by hope, thus how he can now give Haruto access to Infinity Style, because hope is stronger than despair.

His suit actor is Eitoku, who gets that job anyways...

Because it's about time someone's relative became the Big Good without being dead.

• Jossed. Haruto's dad died in a car crash that left Haruto as the sole survivor.

• To expand on this, WW is in reality the Phantom's Wiseman, and he will use poor Koyomi as the catalyst of the next "Sabbath", only this time, it will encompass most, if not all, of Torizakii.
  • As to why he gave Haruto the means to become Wizard? He wants to test him to see if he has the magic potential and skill to stop him after surviving his first "Sabbath".
  • Alternatively, he could be powering up Wizard in order to make Wizardragon/Dragon Phantom materialize. As Wiseman he goads the Phantoms to try and coax Haruto to despair the usual manner. After all, there's a reason Sora/Gremlin Phantom gave the heroes the yellow magic stone...
    • To add onto this claim, he is seen in episode 31 saying that Haruto's Infinity Form has become a troublesome situation.

Making rings is one hint, taking Haruto and Koyomi is probably another, depending on how they exactly met.

• Makes sense. I don't know how it's written in Japanese, but if you switch the 'ji' and the 'ma,' well, if you squint, you get something that makes you say "white magician."
• It's also strange how he knows a lot about Koyomi, despite that he said he 'met' her and Haruto six months ago. It's possible that Haruto explained it to him, but still, something seems off.

... Wait, wrong show. Plus Virgo's kinda dead.

• Not really, as long as the Virgo Switch isn't destroyed, the White Wizard can possibly become the Virgo Zodiarts.
  • We also know Foundation X can make copies of monsters. Virgo may return, though it won't be the one we know.

Haruto is his successor to an extent, right? so why not?

• However, it's unknown why the White Wizard isn't exactly seen after he gave the Wizardriver to Haruto, and it is not exactly known why he gave it to him other than to fight phantoms. The White Wizard seems to still be relatively intact, actually fight and have the power of magic on his side, so it makes little sense for him to give Haruto the power of magic.
  • Unless the White Wizard is the Hero of Another Story and Haruto is basically his Secondary Rider...
• Confirmed! After getting curb-stomped by Beelzebub, the White Wizard himself saves Haruto from getting killed.

Each of them is the highest authority in magic, and thus their facepieces are differently colored for each style they command while the rest of the suit is uniform. The one we've seen is Orange, not as an evolution from Yellow but because that actually is Orange magic, the others not only have the proper colors of Red, Green, Blue and Yellow, but a dozen other colors we're never getting in the show otherwise.

• So he's Gennai?
• No, I'd think more Gandalf (or possibly Saruman); if you'll remember, the eldest wizards in that each bore a signature color.
  • But there were only five of them, and two of them shared a color.

All to get a new wizard.

Because why not.

Not like we haven't seen it elsewhere. Of course, we know what that would mean for her. In fact...

• Jossed, both of Haruto's parents are dead.

...it's not like mentor or power-giving characters have a great survival rate lately anyway. Prepare to join Emoto, Skull, and Shroud six feet under! You (and your Badass Longcoat) shall be missed. In fact in fact...

...have we seen him in the present? Soukichi Narumi is dead before the series starts as well.

• Jossed. He appears in Episode Nine to observe Haruto's battle with Phoenix.

What better Big Good for a series where the villains are born of Despair?

• Wow Madoka really changed.
• On second thought, Auriel must've gone into the Kamen Rider world for that purpose.

While I doubt he actually is the White Wizard, maybe he once worked with or works for the White Wizard. It's also possible that the White Wizard is responsible for giving him the ability to craft Wizard's rings.

Going for broke.

Probably a given, but we know White's watching over Haruto, and Wajima has a tendency to make just the ring Haruto needs. WW's probably secretly beaming the information into Wajima's mind as a way of indiscreetly helping our protagonist.

And in that ritual, a person was sole survivor and became The White Wizard.

And ring is the Infinity Ring.

• Jossed, since the White Wizard's transformation ring is clearly different from the Infinity Ring.

Jossed.

When scanned a rings gives the command "NOW!"

• Or it could be entirely his own magical power, explaining why he doesn't have to ask. Why would you politely ask yourself for magic?

In #23, he says as Haruto unlocks the All-Dragon Form: "And now, this one is complete."

• Alternately, he's secretly supporting both Wizard and Beast. He's just being stealthier with Nitoh.

However, it will be so time-consuming that Rings are a much faster choice.

Even when it is an Unreleased Phantom. This is based on the prints of the rings The White Wizard used.

• The White Wizard's phantom could be the Stickman Phantom.

Years ago, the White Wizard was merely a Gate. He eventually gave into despair, and gave birth to Wiseman. However, like Haruto, he survived the process and become a Wizard. Unlike Haruto, unfortunately, the phantom was not sealed within him as successfully. And so they share the same body, swapping personalities often. The White Wizard is unable to kill himself because either Wiseman won't let him or dying will mean Wiseman will be in full control. The whole season is about the two trying to Out Gambit the other. And both of their plans involve Haruto and the Dragon Phantom.

Unlike Wizard's rings bearing dragon images or Beast's rings all having animal faces, the White Wizard's either have elements of his helmet on them or show a stick figure, implying that he's not getting his power from another source. On top of that, his belt announcing each spell with "...now!" would make sense, as he has no need to borrow his magic from something else (as the two Riders do with their Phantoms).

No, not the source of it. Let's be honest, there's a good chance he's going to die, but what if he finds a way to live on, and give his star pupil another power boost at a critical time? It would certainly explain why Infinity Style is white and has a few design elements in common with White Wizard's costume.

• Bonus points if Mayu's Phantom-born powers are somehow involved in said upgrade's creation.

It's suspicious that the White Wizard would send Haruto to someone who knows how to make rings. Also, the White Wizard was never seen asking for Haruto's name yet he knows who he is at #27. Then during #28, the White Wizard's them plays over when Wajima talks.

And his response will be a solemn "I Did What I Had to Do".

His Instant Runes have a moon motif to them and his rings all have a humanoid shape on them, so why not?

• Because in Japanese lore, it's a rabbit, not a man, though this might not stop them from making the foreign reference, given how they had monsters be based off Western Zodiacs in the previous series.
  • The monsters in this series are all based off western monsters, though, not Japanese ones.

In hopes of doing a multi-Rider series in the near future.

• The problem with that idea is that there's already been some third riders (Gills, the Ryuki Riders, Delta, Chalice, Todoroki and Zanki, Drake and Sasword, Pick and chose a Den-O movie rider, Saga, Technically Diend or Kuuga, Eternal and Skull, The Proto-Birth, and Nadeshiko or Meteor), so unless we're working off some specifics like the Seven Year Rule or "Movie Riders don't count", that theory doesn't exactly work.
  • Well, we really didn't have a regular 3rd Rider in-show since Dark Kiva (Proto-Birth doesn't count, because well..it's STILL Birth, (kinda' like IXA Safe Mode, and Burst Mode))

He seemed to dislike the development no because of evil intent, but because he wanted Haruto to go a different path (perhaps evolving into another White Wizard), but Infinity Style is a separate path. Like how Shroud's original intent was Double CycloneAccel Xtreme.

• I view it more as White Wizard wanted Haruto to tap into Dragon's power by forcing Dragon into submission with the Drago Timer like White Wizard did with his own phantom (Notice how the White Wizard driver says "Now" instead of "please"). When Dragon willingly gave Haruto full access to his power through the Infinity Ring, we got the reaction we did.
  • So he has Fantastic Racism against Phantoms? That... actually seems quite feasible.

He was really depressed that Haruto got to kick Phoenix's and Legion's asses.

Either "White Wizard" or "Sora" - or both - is just a persona; simultaneously mentoring Haruto from a distance and getting close to Wiseman to leech information.

...Okay, I know this one was pre-Jossed since they appeared in the same scene at the end of the two-parter with Mayu. I was just amused by the idea of the Trickster pretending to be the Straight Man as part of his schemes. (*imagines White Wizard saying a singsong "Hello~!"*)

• Well, boy, Mayu would be screwed if that was the case.

In a manner similar to Koyomi, Sora survived his transformation into a Phantom. Whatever happened caused Gremlin to think he's Sora, while the real Sora thinks of himself as another person.

Because why not?

Possibly because of something relating to Haruto unlocking Infinity (His comment was pretty ominous, after all), or something to do with Wiseman's plans for Haruto, whatever they are.

Except he is supposed to be his final form, not Infinity.

He is the WIZAAAAAAAAAAARD! The mystical WIZAAAAAAAAAAARD! *

This is meant to be a joke theory.

Smell turns into Smoke when used by his belt, so maybe he upgrades the rest of Wizards rings if he uses them.

They made a huge point of her father disappearing and "watching her from a distance," and the enforced connection with the color white. And he didn't show up at the end, just sending her a letter. That's one hell of a wasted setup if this isn't the case.

• They always do that with Victim of the Week. Remember Taurus?

Using Ten rings in contrast to the riders usage of five. Bonus if he/she has all the Rider powers combine.

After Phoenix, Medusa and the later Co-Dragons are finished, our heroes only find an empty lair - cue Wiseman's voice saying (not to them, more like narration) that he's moving on to other targets... then cue the reveal of the Rider Worlds.

• #8 shows the throne room, which has a convenient curtain for our heroes to pull back just to reveal nothing inside when the time comes.

Sailor Moon's Wiseman turn Chibi-Usa evil by making her give into despair which is how the Phantom are born.

Pheonix and Medusa follow someone who goes by "Wiseman" who could very likely be a fallen or dark wizard. If he doesn't have some sort of monstrous form, it seems possibly that he would be a kamen rider. In addition, Wizard shares parallels with Garo what with the villains being demons born from human malice who take over the form of those they were created from. The final villain of Garo was an evil makai knight, so it is a possibility that the similarities may carry further.

] An alternative to my above WMG concerning Wajima and the White Wizard, Wajima may actually be the Wiseman. Either he doesn't remember and is convinced he is a regular human being, he is hiding it for some unknown purpose, or he's trying to atone for his crimes as a Phantom by helping Haruto (If this turns out to be true, someone new might take over as the "second" Wiseman, possibly Phoenix). As such, I propose three "sub-theories":

• If he doesn't remember, then he will at one point regain his memories, temporarily rejoin the Phantoms, but perform a Heel Face Turn and die. In the aftermath, Phoenix would take over as the head Phantom, calling himself the "Second Wiseman".
• If he is hiding it, he will eventually reveal himself and reveal his ulterior motives (Possibly regaining his youth so he would be in his prime or something like that) by taking his spot back as the head Phantom.
• Or if he's trying to atone, his secret will be revealed, and all of the protagonists but Haruto will turn against him. His reasoning for not turning his back on Wajima will be because Haruto is technically a Phantom, himself, and he might feel like he owes it to Wajima for helping him. However, Phoenix would still end up finding out and would either force Wajima into a Face Heel Turn somehow, or kill him to take his spot as Wiseman.

• Alternately, Wiseman literally doesn't exist and the Phantoms just believe he does.
  • Jossed. Wiseman makes an appearance (albeit in shadow) in Episode 8.
  • And he's been a full-on character for several episodes now, so this theory has been shattered to bits.

An Incubator who has mastered magic to make it so that anyone can become a Witch, and not just Puella Magi.

The reason why he wants to keep the Masquerade up is because he doesn't want his secret revealed. Plus his position in the NSA would easily allow him to round up all the Gates for the ritual in the beginning.

Hey, it could happen!

• Not permanently jossed yet I suppose, but considering the manager was the gate in Movie Wars Ultimatum, the chances on this one are pretty slim.

Albeit being higher among the highers.

• To top it off, the God Phantom!
  • Or the Devil Phantom!
    • Or simply the Fallen Angel Phantom with a heavy dose of symbolism.
    • Jossed, apparently. According to The Other Wiki, he is supposed to be the Carbuncle Phantom. (A lesser-known creature said to have a jewel as part of its body).

Which explains why she's so special.

• Seems unlikely. We saw a silhouetted human-form Wiseman. He's definitely male, and it seems as though Phantoms can only take the shape of their original human.

The latter survived the phantom bursting out of him, and that result in a Split Personality. Wiseman's goal is to completely take over White Wizard's body by bringing him to despair. Which is by making more phantoms.

With himself as the Big Bad, a Dragon Their Feet higher phantom, Phoenix as The Brute, Medusa as The Evil Genius and a newly-made phantom as The Dark Chick.

• Confirmed, though its more of a Four man Band. The Dragon Their Feet Higher Phantom (Gremlin) also doubles as The Dark Chick.

The rumored Super Mode for Wizard is supposed to be multicolored, which will require rings made of multicolored stones - like the stones forming part of Wiseman's design.

That's his human form.

• The silhouette of Wiseman's human form we saw appears to be a random guy, while the bubblegum Phantom was rather unique looking. He also doesn't have the same voice or personality as Wiseman.
• Recent scans state that the Phantom in question is the Gremlin Phantom.

Yo, dawg

He wants to gather enough Mana to perform a ritual involving the alignment of the planets to release every single phantom from every single Gate in the world. This will destabilise Human civilization, effectively letting Wiseman take over the world. Haruto is instrumental to these plans, and he needs him, and in extension, Dragon, to become strong enough to allow him to perform the ritual.

Well, he kinda looks like a Villainous Harlequin. Funnily enough, Gremlin's human form has a playing card motif, despite them very likely being separate characters.

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Has this been considered? Both White Wizard and Wiseman support Haruto getting the Dragon Stones and using his Dragon-themed forms, and when Haruto goes into Infinity Form, White Wizard notes how that's not what he wants.

The reason Wizard will have so many forms is to still have a strong market with the young boys while they try something new with a female Rider in a strong role as the second Rider in the series. And also, she will not die.

• In expansion to this, she will be themed after Magical Girl.
  • The Detective from the premier perhaps, she did end the episode Keeping the Engage Ring, and just like our Hero was at the dispair Event Horizon and got better....
  • Jossed-Haruto states that the reason he can use magic is because he has a phantom inside. Rinko can't use magic since Haruto destroyed her phantom.
    • Although, rumors of Kamen Rider Witch are already starting to spread all over the web. Maybe it wont be Rinko, but it seems a female Second Rider will happen. And a Third is also in the way.
• Jossed, unfortunately. Beast, a male, is the secondary rider.

The reason Wizard will have so many forms is because of this. The previous Riders returning in the series may or may not happen.

• There have already been rumors of a second rider.Furthermore how many forms the main rider has no effect on getting a second rider.Decade and Double had 9 forms and OOO had 100+ on debue yet still got secondary riders.
• Jossed with the confirmation of Kamen Rider Beast.

If the rumor on the second rider being Kamen Rider Dice is true, then it will debut early compared to Meteor, Birth or Accel. Then later in the series, the 3rd rider debuts.

• Technically speaking, the show already has three riders: Wizard, White Wizard, and Beast.
  • The official site doesn't consider White Wizard a Rider, so he's more like the Alternatives or Shadow Moon. But Mayu will almost certainly become the third Rider anyway.

And he's behind the creation of the Robot Buddy.

• Jossed. Beast will have an animal motif.

Because Wizard looks like Alphas with Zetman's colour scheme.

• Jossed.

The intro mentions how Magic used to exist in symbiosis with Technology. Possibly, they will have to again to finally save the day.

• Let's hope the (main) Tech Rider is more likable than Kiva's.
• Apparently jossed.

They will grab his arm and tell him something along the lines of 'I haven't given up yet' and through Heroic Willpower survive like he did.

• Confirmed that he refuses, but jossed as to the circumstances. At the end of #19, Shunpei suggests that Haruto should enter Nito's Underworld and destroy Chimera so Nito's life is no longer in danger. Haruto is about to put the Engage Ring on Nito to try it when Nito objects.

Which lead to a new phantom.

He is the "Beast".

• Or he survived the Phantom emerging from himself and merged with it somehow.
• Or he made a deal with it to work with him to fight the other Phantoms.
• He gets mana from eating other phantoms, so at least he's the natural enemy of other phantoms.
  • Which he needs to live, so he's not to different from the "doll" Haruto is recharging.

...and all their Phantom beasts combine into a ginormous monster, if the size of the Dragon foot is any indication.

To give the shop more screenies.

He had a bigger role in episodes 10-11, had a good characterization and there's the Ki in his name, that means yellow, Beast's main color.

• Nope, it's just been leaked: Kamen Rider Beast's true identity is: Kousuke Nitoh, an entirely new character.
  • Also, the actual "Ki" in "Kizaki" means "Tree".

Confirmed. This should've been obvious, though.

For example, Beast will handle a lesser phantom while Wizard can go ahead and battle an unreleased phantom within a gate.

• Jossed, Beast is apparently a wizard from ancient times. He's more experienced than Haruto.

Instead of had always been there.

• Jossed. We see his origins, but that's in a flashback which takes place a while before his introduction.

Because it happened before.

• Confirmed somewhat. Medusa used Beast as a means to make life difficult for Wizard.

• But his phantom was cyclops instead, and he's no longer a Gate.
  • Also, the name was just accidentally leaked. Beast is someone else entirely named Kousuke Nitoh.

• Which becomes at least a Land Dragon Ring.
  • Jossed; a Phantom had it

Just as how Wizard rides on his motorbike. In the underworlds, of course.

• Confirmed, it seems.◊

Phoenix requires mana to revive. Beast consumes the mana of Phantoms. Put two and two together.

• Jossed. Phoenix was kicked into the sun, instead of Beast consuming him. It was considered by Beast though.

He is just a muggle; the magical potential when changes him into Kamen Rider Beast lies in the belt instead.

• So how does that work, seeing as how Beast is confirmed to be host to the Chimera Phantom?
  • He could get his magic from eating other phantoms, and the Chimera is an amalgamation of all those phantoms fused into one
• #18 reveals his backstory, where he found the Beast Driver in an old ruin. The moment he equipped the belt and transformed, Chimera appeared before him and granted him great magical power, but in an exchange for a need to supply mana for chimera.

Given how that ring is shaped like the Chimera Color rings.

He could either eat sugary food or those high in carbohydrates just like Haruto or wear a Please Ring for Wizard to activate whenever he's low on mana.

• Jossed in the former case, he's eaten donuts twice with no such effect.
• Actually, it's high calorie that replenishes Haruto's mana. But since Mayonnaise is high in calorie, yet Beast still needs to KO and consume mana from other phantoms, this is fully Jossed.
• In #20, Nito commented on not eating Phantoms for days. The extra mana that let him survive had to be somewhere.
  • It could be that the consumption rate is just enough that normal food will keep him alive for a while, or the Ghouls that he's consumed gave him a bit of a buffer.

Oh come on, it's a Phantom. The episode already has one of them taking advantage of Beast being an idiot to do what they want, who's to say Chimera wasn't too? Chimera could easily be doing the same thing Medusa was planning, or it just wants more power for itself.

• Or, similar to Dragon, it eventually plans to leave the belt and is building up mana to do so.

Specifically, one that gives Beast a Super Mode.

• Jossed. The Hyper Ring was found in an separate excavation site.

Instead of using them in the slot he uses for his Mants, he has to use them where he uses his main transformation ring.

Beast will eventually become friends with Wizard since Wizard doesn't need Mana to live and in fact produces it. Leading to fast Bash Brothers with Wizard calling in Beast to eat the Phantoms and Ghouls he mops up.

• Also Maintaining two dolls will cause him to regen mana faster like working a muscle, leading to his super form.
• And once all the phantoms are gone Wizard with continue to fuel both dolls for the Movie Sequel.
  • Well, Koyomi's Please Ring didn't work with Kosuke...

...with each mantle being paired/merged with a particular Style, resulting in Flame Falcon Style, Water Dolphin Style*

Well, duh...

, the colour-mismatched Land Buffalo Style and the sounds-strange-but-is-surprisingly-effective Hurricane Chameleon Style (not necesserily in that order)

• Recent scans show they can use each other's rings, though not known to what end yet.

We know that when used with the Wizardriver the Beast rings give different spells

• Dolphin- Swim through the ground
• Falcon- Turn into feathers from physical contact

So what will the other two do?

• Buffalo
  • Gives the ring wearer Super Strength like the Excite Ring, but without the visual muscle-up effects
• Chameleon-
  • Invisibility

Possibly named Kamen Rider Witch.

Though it was once law, it hasn't happened since Decade, even teased but averted with Nadeshiko... and that's why it will happen this time. You're no longer expecting it, no longer desensitized. Mayu will return in a few episodes, suit up, be awesome, and get killed the second everyone relaxes.

• During the movie. The way this troper sees it, she will vanish for a few episodes to "train" then show up to do something like "Classic Gavan saves New Gavan" like in the Gavan movie but never really reveal herself until the movie where she makes a show of it... then dies. Basically, she will be a tease for a movie exclusive Rider.

May as well post the ideas here. For those who don't know what happened, Mayu can hold back her Phantom like Haruto, and thus, White Wizard took her so he can train her to be a new wizard, aka, a female rider. So, post you ideas. The ongoing theory is that she will be Kamen Rider Witch, and have the ability to summon a Phantom's inner gate.

The Medagabryu axe "eats" cell medals (tangible desire) and it makes the same noise as when Beast consumes mana.

But it's a Swiss Army Weapon Ring, where she could use it in many ways.

Between the magic element of the series and the rings as a transformation device, this just seemed too logical to not put in. Bonus points if they're named after Goetic Demons.

• Nope.

Something close to Kamen Rider Blade.

• Jossed, they've got mythological motifs.

If Rings are to be used by the villains too, and the Fire Style's Dragon implies anything.

• The main bad guys certainly do, as did the first MOTW. All Greek so far.
  • Seems like mythical creatures is the new motif this year, with Phantoms like Phoenix, Medusa, Hellhound, Minotauros, and Cait Sith appearing. So this is confirmed.

There's about twenty-six of them, and that's usually enough Monsters of the Week to last a Kamen Rider show these days.

• Jossed; they're based on Western Mythical Animals.

Doesn't anyone else think it's a bit too coincidental that someone just happened to have the transformation belt on hand to give to Souma when he survived the Ritual. I'm thinking a magic user from the future, maybe even a reference to Kessler for the greater plot behind this.

What do Wizards (magicians) and Dice have in common? They're both featured in casinos.

• Jossed. It's an antique shop.

Right now, we're 3/3 on the "close associate of the main Rider" character dying at the end of the series (them being Philip, Ankh, and Kengo). Shunpei being the "young apprentice" would probably make him the most likely target. *

I get the feeling that said position is becoming more lethal to a character than the position of Female Rider.

• It seems far more likely that this will be dealt to Koyomi. She shares the same role as the previous three characters mentioned. She's a mysterious figure with a connection to the new villains. Chances are if anyone dies, it'll either be Shunpei or Koyomi.
  • Of course, all three got better.

They've been the Big Bad since Kamen Rider Double, appears in Kamen Rider OOO (The movie though) and reappears again in Fourze. It seems the writer intends to make Foundation X the Big Bad in the 10th Kamen Rider series counting from Kamen Rider Decade.

Somehow.

• Perhaps by taking over the Phantom's body from within in an inversion of how they're born?
  • Sounds like a good back story for the second rider to contrast with Haruto's never giving up hope.
• Maybe they could regain their hope after they turned into a Phantom and they become the second rider that way.
  • It doesn't seem to work that way - when a Phantom hatches, it destroys the host and wears it. You don't "become" a Phantom any more than a spider with wasp eggs planted in it "becomes" the wasps that hatch and eat it from within on the way out. It really is one of the darkest monster-creation methods we've seen. Every Phantom is wearing the skin of someone it drove to Death By Despair. However, what if someone's hope is strong enough to beat the Phantom on its own like Haruto, but the Phantom had been in the process of hatching, like closer to the surface, and the host can use some of the Phantom's powers?
• Maybe THIS is how Koyomi came about.
  • Confirmed in episode 5. Koyomi is what is left of her Phantom being freed
• According to #34, Gremlin might also be another.

They've done it before.

• According to official material, Koyomi may be this.
  • She's not.
• #34 implies that Gremlin might be this.

It also explains why Wizardragon is bestial. Haruto said himself he didn't give up hope and instead houses a Phantom within him. The only question that remains is what would Phantom would have been born from Rinko.

• The Jabberwock, apparently. Guess the WizarSwordGun is a vorpal blade. Even if it doesn't go snickety-snack.

It invites people with empty promises of instant successes, only to trap them in an island. While the ritual is performed.

• Jossed- Episode 2 states that the victims were kidnapped.

It's pretty clear Rinko's chances of being the Second Rider are, well, pretty awful. But this would let her actually do stuff while not getting in the way of those sweet, sweet stay-at-home-mom ratings.

• Well, the Phantoms do seem to be vulnerable to silver bullets. If the police is informed of this, they would theoretically have a way of combating them.

First, he had been using a Zodiarts switch out of vengence of other stuff. He has also been working with the Phantoms, only to be double-crossed. In a Despair Event Horizon, the switch activate is Last One phrase. The bad guy transforms, leaving his body behind. The body then cracks and pops out a new Phantom. Bonus point if both the Zodiarts and Phanton combine into a bonus boss.

• Double bonus points if the combined form is based on Ophiuchus.

• As a counterpoint to the Solar Eclipse during the sacrifice.
  • Perhaps the White Wizard was empowered during a similar event during a Lunar Eclipse and has been fighting the good fight until he found Haruto and passed the torch on to him.

And he really doesn't want the police's 'help' one bit.

• Jossed

• Most likely disproved, as Koyomi would've said something if he was.
  • Close enough-his dead friend's son almost become one.

• Close enough-his dead friend's son was one.

She is like a robot, except powered by magic.

• So...a golem?
  • Homunculus
  • Seemingly confirmed in episode 4.Koyomi has a ring similar to the engage ring,but it used to channel energy into her.Viewers should note how this is similar to how Haruto summons/keeps the Pla Monsters active.
    • Actually Jossed. According to episode 5, Koyomi is the human side of her Phantom that somehow managed to stay alive enough for the White Wizard to find her. She needs Haruto's energy to keep her half-life going.

Just so he can build up his hope and then dash it to pieces to induce the Dispair Event Horizon

• Confirmed
• In expansion to this, the Hellhound Phantom has settled the deal with Shunpei into making a magic show and warns him should he be killed, Shunpei could no longer cast magic.
• Jossed; he humiliated Shunpei publicly and burn his book through him.

Mainly because we've had character-based plots like this for the last three years:

• Phillip was a child of the family distribting Gaia Memories.
• Ankh was a Greeed, and Eiji became one.
• And most recently, Kengo was the avatar of the Core Switch.

So following this pattern, Koyomi should be related to the Phantoms in some way, and what better than being their mysterious leader, hidden in plain sight?

• Except we've seen the silhouette of the Wiseman's human self, and it was clearly a male human. Not to mention Wiseman is capable of assuming his human form.

Contrary to their stereotypical mannerism, the manager isn't the gay person. His assistance is. In fact, the manager intentionally behave like a woman to avoid sexual harassment.

• Jossed. The assistant is one of the victims of an attractive lady swindler in episode 6.

• The White Magician gave Haruto his Driver and a Flame Ring. It's implied that Wajima made the rest from the time that they met until episode 1. Assuming that Wajima didn't give the Flame Ring to the White Magician, he still has the potential to make one through the whispering of the voices.
  • So, we might get a plot where the Flame Ring gets eaten/broken? Sounds more Sentai than Rider to me.
  • If the Time Travel theory pans out and Haruto is the White Magician, he might use the Time ring to give his past self the new Flame Ring and a Driver.

If their similarities to the Incubators are anything to behold, they might be saving the world in the long run. Expect the heroes to call 'em out regardless.

There will be a race of angelic beings born of Hope, the Good Counterpart to the Despair born demons that are the Phantoms. Normal Phantoms can become them as well, but only under special circumstances.

• Perhaps Wizardragon will eventually do this, perhaps giving Wizard an upgrade as well.
• Or maybe the "good counterparts" of the bad guys will be even worse bad guys.

And that's why Kamen Rider Wizard's finishing move in #2 did not work.

• Jossed, #3 revealed that he can merge with shadows and that's how he escaped.
• But that phantom was directly shot by Wizard a few times! Those shots are also Finishing Moves and would normally kill Phantoms. Escaping is pointless if the Hellhound Phantom can't survive it in the first place.
  • Could be the reason why Wizard used Water Style to kill Hellhound.

• In #3 a government cover up is mentioned and that kind of thing shouts Foundation X.

...the Showa Riders themselves, having cut off Foundation X's connection to the Phantoms (and never learning about Wiseman till it's too late), and ruling that it's for the good of mankind that the truth doesn't get out until they can fix things. This involves watching over the current Riders to make sure they're up to the job.

That's why White Wizard just happened to be there; he was trying to stop the ritual (which may very well be what Wiseman's Sabbath is (they said 'once again' meaning he's done it before), but Wiseman interfered and stopped him. He did, however, manage to save Koyomi. He gave Haruto the Wizardriver out of guilt for not stopping the ritual, as well as to have an ally that could help him in the future. As for where he is now, he's off trying to track down Wiseman, knowing he can trust Haruto to handle the Phantoms in the meantime.

All of the phantoms we see in the Ritual flashback will appear in the series, one way or another.

• Jossed. In the flashback, the only people we recognize are Haruto and possibly Medusa (Misa) and Phoenix (Yugo), all the others are just random people who we don't see later. However, on some occasions when a Phantom (Minotauros, Valkyrie, and Lizardman) reveals themself in their "that man is dead" speech, we get a brief flashback to the ritual where we see their Gates die and the Phantoms being born.
  • Congrats, you worked out the meaning of the "Remember the New Guy" trope. That's exactly what that trope is.

We will meet assorted people Haruto had helped between the ritual and #1. Just a shot of their rings will be enough.

Since both Haruto and Yoko need them to fuel themselves...

• Both Haruto and Yoko are going to be focal characters in Super Hero Taisen Z. Prepare yourselves.

... Named Yutaka Daimon.

• Alternately, she's related to Detective Ichijo.

Those who succumb to despair turn for the worse.

• Phoenixes rise from their own ashes. Phoenix can regenerate so long as his body isn't completely destroyed, even ashes. The only way to kill him for good is to completely obliterate his body.
• Seemingly Jossed. Haruto had to trap him in the sun to keep him from coming back.

Phoenix was defeated by Wizard, but not Killed Off for Real. He doesn't seem like the kind of person to take someone being stronger than him. He'll find a way to get progressively stronger and be The Rival.

• Jossed. Phoenix was kicked into the sun by Haruto. After getting stronger and stronger every time he gets killed.

(Expanding from the related WMG above)

After Sauron's defeat, Morgoth appears to his remaining followers in their dreams and instructs them in the Phantom-creating ritual. Their leader—who would become Wiseman—does so, and on a day of a solar eclipse the first Sabbath occurs, unleashing the first Phantoms upon Middle-Earth. Morgoth's plan is to cause enough death and despair to disrupt the balance of Arda and open a doorway, allowing him to re-enter the World (a la Final Fantasy XIII).

Alarmed, the Valar summon Celebrimbor and the Gwaith-ir-Mirdain from Mandos' Halls, and the Istari. Celebrimbor and his smiths begin forging new Rings and weapons to counter the rising threat; it is during that time that Cemenya, the Ring of Earth is forged. It, along with the Three Rings Vilya, Nenya and Narya would become the basis for the four Elemental rings.

The Istari would then become the first Kamen Rider Wizard(s). They are sent back to Middle-Earth, and, in a cataclysmic battle that would claim the lives of the other three Istari, they manage to defeat the Phantoms, with Wiseman swearing that they will one day return to fulfill Morgoth's plan. Mithrandir decides to remain in Middle-Earth, in preparation for Wiseman's eventual return.

And the rest, they say, is history.

Intentional or otherwise.

That it could squeeze itself from Koyomi's body instead of bursting inside-out.

That will be the big reveal down the road.

• Jossed. If she was, she would have been there to see their parents dying. Also, Haruto would know her a little more intimately than he does in the show.

Because Fire-types are weak against Water-types.

• In that case, perhaps he'll meet his end at the hands of Water Dragon Style.
  • Haruto tried. It didn't take.
• Jossed. Phoenix had to be kicked into the sun to keep him from coming back.

It's a matter of how many.

• Now that he's put into the sun, we will never find out.

So, to kill him off for good, just stall and tire him out first.

• Which means in #11, Haruto could have killed him for good if he just cut the crap and went into Flame Dragon Style and did a repeat of the Curb-Stomp Battle of #9 (Phoenix had just recently revived and was "weak"), rather than just arsing around in Hurricane and Water Style and getting his sweet ass kicked for no reason.
  • Perhaps so. Alas, the writers need Phoenix alive for 10 more episodes or so... So they have the Rider be an idiot and fail to use a Dragon Style.
  • Maybe not since Phoenix was later shown immune to the same attack. He didn't show signs of lacking mana in episode 11 when they fought. Besides he ran away pretty quickly
  • [[spoiler: Phoenix is now stuck in the Sun. But we may never find out if Phoenix continues to reincarnate.

As in using tricks and secretive, yet logical methods instead of using sorcery.

This is why his upgraded Flame Style causes the Wizar Driver to switch from "Flame, Please" to "Flame, Dragon" (rather than "Flame Dragon, Please"); it's switching power sources.

Despair will not create a phantom within.

To be replaced with another higher Phantom.

• Jossed. It seems it's Phoenix who will be replaced instead.

The Gremlin Phantom finally gets named in the same episode Phoenix gets kicked into the sun, so it seems possible.

Both's parents were claimed by a car accident. Both didn't give into despair (though Haruto has Survivor Guilt), perhaps both with bond by talking about the tragedy they both suffered.

Wizard Water Dragon Style, then Kamen Rider Beast, then showcasing the latter in an underworld battle and finally, Wizard Land Dragon Style.

As the Phantom threat reaches a peak, Koyomi makes a Heroic Sacrifice - she reopens as a Gate to let Haruto/Wizard enter in the opposite direction. He passes through Koyomi's Underworld, finds the point of Phantom origin and charges at it in All Dragon form, shoving it back where it came while following it in, forever sealing himself in the Phantom world where he lures Phantoms away from Gates and towards himself, and goes on a rampage and kills them all... eventually.

He learned from what happened at Madoka, and so he decided to get a pen name a la Saburo Yatsude.

• Jossed for the former: Tsuyoshi Kida looks nothing like Gen Urobuchi.

Most female phantoms are bred by one single male phantom, giving birth to lots of baby phantoms.

• Uh... pretty sure that's not where Phantoms come from...
  • But who said there is only one way to make phantoms?
    • Oh, I dunno... maybe the show this page is for?

See also: Philip, Ankh, Kengo.

• Alternatively, it will be the Dragon Phantom that will bite it, given how it and the three mentioned have relations to the monster group, but not necessarily the villains.
• Dragon doesn't fit the "mysterious origins" factor, though. We know who and what it is.

Which would explain why they haven't both just gone and fought each other already. The stunt that White pulled with the red magic stone was pushing it greatly, so he stepped back a bit and got the next two to Haruto via less direct means.

• Jossed, Ghouls are formed from magical rocks.
• What I meant was that a Phantom has a unique ability to produce Ghouls on its own in the form of magic rocks. Then, he gives the rocks to other Phantoms to use.
  • Gravel Phantom? Sandman Phantom?

Dude has a completely different personality compared to Wiseman's.

• Confirmed with the revelation that that Phantom is Gremlin.

However, it will take a couple of episodes for a phantom to use its abilities to summon mana for Phoenix to somehow use in order to revive.

• Jossed. Phoenix was kicked into the sun and isn't coming back.

Maybe Phoenix will die soon and he'll replace him.

• Phoenix didn't die, but let's say someone has to take his job, for now.

It appears that that episode will be revealing the story of his Gate,

• Jossed. Though he may or may not die in the upcoming story arc. After all, Wizard and Beast do seem to be out for blood now.
  • He's now permanently stuck in the middle of the sun.

Yugo (a Gate) was in a receiving end of Abuse Is Okay When It's Female on Male by his wife. Bonus point if Phoenix ended up kicking the bitch.

• Jossed for now.

It has something to do with the phantoms.

Serving as a counterpart to Haruto's Dragon and use of rings

Not only they are Gates, but being abandoned in an island out of nowhere makes them vulnerable to despair.

A being brought into this world through the despair of its host falling into despair itself seems like something that would have some interesting potential.

In a tie-in to the previous WMG, this new Phantom will require a more powerful form to combat.

Bonus points for Beast dealing a finishing blow. Or absorbing mana after Wizard finished Phoenix off.

• Jossed; Haruto finished Phoenix off once and for all. By blasting him to the sun.

Or the other way around.

Phoenix has never battled Beast, with without any resistance against his magic, Beast is going to whoop him.

• Confirmed, though he only held him back enough to let Wizard escape with Rinko.

The biggest regret that phantom could make was to have Haruto a source for that form.

After being blasted by Wizard's finishing move, Phoenix revives once again. Then Medusa is instructed to finish him off, only to be successfully fought back and fried by him.

• Jossed. Neither dies, but Phoenix got stuck in the sun so he won't appear again.

He's almost definitely one of the higher Phantoms, considering that he seems to be on an equal level to Medusa and Phoenix, even if he is helping them both out (albeit for his own purposes). However, compared to Phantoms like those two, and Dragon and Chimera, a gremlin seems really lackluster. Watch as he reveals that he has a powered-up form that evolves him into a more suitably awesome creature, taking over the whole Phantom organization (maybe even stabbing Wiseman in the back while he's at it). Plus, his Gate's name means "sky," a good counterpart to the two Riders whose Phantoms are both flying creatures.

• So he would be like Enter becoming the new Messiah?
  • Possibly, or Wiseman was a front and Gremlin was the true mastermind all along.

and become an immortal god.

Either Wizard's upcoming movie or the next magic-themed Kamen Rider's.

He will leave the sun somehow, even stronger than before, and will appear just in time to fight a Rider's new Super Mode. Possibly, Beast could absorb him and gain enough power to access his Super Mode.

He is trying to get closer to the Wiseman, and saw Phoenix as an obstacle, so he tried to get rid of him by getting him to fight Wizard. As for why he would do that, it's possible that he is The Starscream, and is looking to betray the Phantoms and take over.

He is playing the Phantoms from within to try and stop them. The playful trollish attitude is just a cover he's trying to maintain, and the reason why he went to Haruto as himself instead of the White Wizard was because he was trying to maintain his cover. He also seemed to know that Wizard beat Phoenix, similar to how last season, Tachibana knew that Cancer was defeated, foreshadowing his reveal as being Virgo.

• Medusa was aware of Phoenix's defeat too, though. It's not unlikely that the Phantoms would have scrying powers like our heroes do via their familiars.

A phantom who really is good (like what she thought Phoenix was) will show up, but because of past experience, she will treat it like a villain, leading to numerous interrupted cooldown hugs and Nice Job Breaking It, Hero moments worse than what happened with Phoenix.

• Like the phantom would pull of a Then Let Me Be Evil moment?
• Bonus Point if the gate who turned into that phantom is an Asshole Victim.

Judging by her clothing.

• But Yugo never wore anything like Phoenix's wardrobe. The two of them, at the least, seem to have abandoned even the pretense of being human, so they can wear whatever they want since they don't have to pretend to be their Gates.
  • Now jossed.

Crazy, I know, but it could be possible...

• To add on to that, by having his mana slowly drained from all the revivings to the point where he no longer has enough mana to revive again.
  • Plus no telling what happened to his mental state while this is going on....

Where Beast recognize himself as a Kamen Rider.

Even if the phantoms were unreleased.

Like they say above, they've done it before.

The other Phantom would act as a beacon to the new Phantom when the Gate falls into despair. Otherwise Phantoms would be created all the time whenever some Gate falls into despair on their own. This could be why the original ceremony was needed to create so many Phantoms at once.

He will try to overthrow Wiseman and replace him as the new Wiseman. The key difference, however, will be that he will fail. Wiseman will either kill him, weaken him, leave him to be killed/absorbed by the Riders, or somehow steal all of his mana himself.

By a phantom coming from her own sister.

• Jossed.

Medusa's case will be an example.

• Jossed. Mayu's Inner Phantom looked nothing like Medusa.

A strong one, particularly.

First hint is her phantom's crystal bodies.

He'll just be yet another Monster of the Week.

...in a crossover movie. The movie's main villain will have the power to get him out of the sun. But he is out of Wizard's storyline for good.

Instead, she becomes a Pretty Cure. Still refered to as a magician though.

Turns out the past few Kamen Rider correspond to an earlier string of Super Sentai:

• Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger to Kamen Rider Decade - both Milestone Celebrations
• Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger to Kamen Rider Double - both have wind as a pivotal element
• Bakuryu Sentai Abaranger to Kamen Rider OOO - dinosaurs are an important plot point
• Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger to Kamen Rider Fourze - scifi and space theme
• Mahou Sentai Magiranger to Kamen Rider Wizard - magic themed, of course

Thus the next Kamen Rider will follow Gogo Sentai Boukenger.

• One of the other Gorgons
• Siren
• Rockbiter... What? It can happen.
• My guesses are either Golem or Carbuncle. There were crystal spikes jutting out of her back.
• Elemental in general, Earth one if specifically

They've been hinting at the idea that the Gate could be alive somewhere inside the Phantom with both Phoenix and Medusa, though both were shot down pretty quickly, with the latter's case having Haruto state that they're just using memories from the Gate. From his hesitation to comment further, it could be that he doesn't really know himself, and thus the possibility is there, just not as high as we expect it to be.

Enter Sora, who had appeared around the time Phoenix was getting the shaft. He's different from the other two Phantoms, in which he's pretty friendly, if trolly, and addresses the Phantoms by their Gate's name. Definitely not something you'd expect from a Phantom. Could it be that the Gremlin's Gate has some influence surrounding him and is alive somewhere? Might explain why he helps the heroes at times and how he takes being called a Phantom. Confirmed. Gremlin denies that he is 'Gremlin' to Wiseman, and identifies himself as Sora.

He's helped out the heroes on a few occasions and knew Medusa's plan, even though there's no indication she told him (her reaction implies she didn't), but Cerberus was seen watching Medusa and Maya, meaning the White Wizard did. This could also explain why he's trolling Medusa.

This will lead to a Heroic BSOD, which allows the Dragon to take more control over him.

Bonus point if he didn't see it coming.

Instead his goal is to create powerful mages. The Sabbath ritual was just some trial by fire to gather a whole bunch of potential candidates, in this case Haruto ended up being the single individual who didn't give into despair is able to become a mages. Now, he makes Phantoms attack Gates, in the chance that a mage is created instead of a Phantom.

But her phantom escaped and has the ability to suck life force out of people. Destroying the phantom will turn Koyomi into a completely normal person.

Only Kamen Rider Wizard Infinity is immune to its effect.

Gremlin seems to have a bit too much ambition for the writers to just abandon as a monster of the week later on. Also, he bears a striking resemblance to Cazali from OOO. (Also JK from Fourze, but irrelevant) They were pretty much the schemers and trolls in a way. Also remember that he was the guy who got the most core medals at one point before biting the dust.

But only as a movie exclusive, because tradition states that. She'll probably be more of an apprentice character if she is not booted out of the series, since magic training from scratch might take a while.

Only to get killed by Wiseman or Medusa quite easily. This will cause Haruto go on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge while also giving the White Wizard a What the Hell, Hero? moment.

• Bonus points if Mayu only used her ring that faked her death (Like the Dead Ringer), and Haruto got in her way.

With the lack of a Dragon to power it up, there's no use for a Dragon Style, though if Dragon comes back, it might not be in a way that can still be used with Dragon Styles... though this may be jossed soon.

• Jossed. Though Dragon seems to be made from Hope now, rather than Despair, nothing has changed about the Dragon Styles or any other way Haruto can tap into his power.

Much like Kaji in Neon Genesis Evangelion, Gremlin is playing all sides, good or evil, to get closer to the truth (in this case, what the deal is behind the Sabbath, Wizards, and Philosopher's Stone), even it it will get him killed.

He wields a spear, his armor is fairly streamlined, and the head resembles the open mouth of a Dragon, like most Final Fantasy Dragoons. Specifically similar to Kain Highwind. Plus, he kills Wizar Dragon with a jump and stab through the head. The reference can't be an accident.

Whether through faith in him, extreme motivation, or perhaps having some innate magic of their own, the children will come to help Haruto in his showdown with Legion

If you watch the preview, it looks a lot like the beach where the Sabbath flashbacks occur.

Lots of phantoms.

Think about it.

..that all Phantoms must go by their Gate's name. If only to annoy the heck out of Medusa more than he already is.

• Jossed-his first order is for Medusa to throw away his gum.

He did not actually kill and take over his human host (Sora) during the Sabbath ritual. Instead, they both somehow merged.

• Gremlin had claimed to the heroes that he is a human in phantom's body, and actually saves a Gate for some reason.

• Siren
  • Bonus points if she uses Haruto's feelings for Koyomi against him
• Witch
• Harpy
• Mermaid

Every time he dies, he gets stronger. So, naturally, he'll become so strong, that he'll be able to escape the sun.

He is a trickster after all, and he may just be playing the human in a Phantom body shtick to either manipulate everyone else or just get in their heads.

It's building up his character, much like Phoenix, so he might get himself killed like he did.

• Jossed he dodged away Kamen Rider Wizard Infinity's Shining Strike.

By simply saying that all the phantoms could have been saved. Haruto have murder a lot of innocent lives already.

A comment on episode 35 made this point. Phoenix and Medusa were shown to be nice people when they were human. However, Sora was a Serial Killer, and for some reason, kept his humanity. Basically, the more evil you were, the more control you get.

Medusa has long black hair, just like all of Sora's other victims, and the two have a somewhat strained relationship. Maybe he will wait until the two are alone or until Medusa is weakened before finishing her offf.

• It seems to be long black hair and a white dress that sets him off.
• Well then, let's just hope Medusa doesn't wear white.

It magically make fire to frame his Gate target.